Requires the payment of regular wages to bay constables employed by the town of Hempstead, Nassau county, who have sustained injuries or illnesses in the line of duty.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8028
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local
Government
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to providing
coverage for injuries while in the line of duty by bay constables in
the town of Hempstead, Nassau county
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 207-c of the general municipal
2 law, as amended by section 55 of chapter 476 of the laws of 2018, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 1. Any sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff or corrections officer of
5 the sheriff's department of any county or any member of a police force
6 of any county, city of less than one million population, town or
7 village, or of any district, agency, board, body or commission thereof,
8 or any LIRR police officer as defined in paragraph two of subdivision a
9 of section three hundred eighty-nine of the retirement and social secu-
10 rity law whose benefits are provided in and pursuant to such section
11 three hundred eighty-nine, or a detective-investigator or any other
12 investigator who is a police officer pursuant to the provisions of the
13 criminal procedure law employed in the office of a district attorney of
14 any county, or any corrections officer of the county of Erie department
15 of corrections, or an advanced ambulance medical technician employed by
16 the county of Nassau, or any detention officer employed by the city of
17 Yonkers, or any supervising fire inspector, fire inspector, fire
18 marshal, or assistant fire marshal employed full-time in the county of
19 Nassau fire marshal's office, or at the option of the county of Nassau,
20 any probation officer of the county of Nassau, or any director of bay
21 constables, assistant director of bay constables, bay constable II, or
22 bay constable employed by the department of conservation and waterways
23 in the town of Hempstead, county of Nassau, who is injured in the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 performance of [his or her] their duties or who is taken sick as a
2 result of the performance of [his or her] their duties so as to necessi-
3 tate medical or other lawful remedial treatment shall be paid by the
4 municipality or The Long Island Rail Road Company by which [he or she]
5 such person is employed the full amount of [his or her] such person's
6 regular salary or wages from such employer until [his or her] their
7 disability arising therefrom has ceased, and, in addition such munici-
8 pality or The Long Island Rail Road Company shall be liable for all
9 medical treatment and hospital care necessitated by reason of such inju-
10 ry or illness. Provided, however, and notwithstanding the foregoing
11 provisions of this section, the municipal or The Long Island Rail Road
12 Company health authorities or any physician appointed for the purpose by
13 the municipality or The Long Island Rail Road Company, as relevant,
14 after a determination has first been made that such injury or sickness
15 was incurred during, or resulted from, such performance of duty, may
16 attend any such injured or sick police officer, from time to time, for
17 the purpose of providing medical, surgical or other treatment, or for
18 making inspections, and the municipality or The Long Island Rail Road
19 Company, as the case may be, shall not be liable for salary or wages
20 payable to such police officer, or for the cost of medical treatment or
21 hospital care furnished after such date as such health authorities or
22 physician shall certify that such injured or sick police officer has
23 recovered and is physically able to perform [his or her] their regular
24 duties. Any injured or sick police officer who shall refuse to accept
25 medical treatment or hospital care or shall refuse to permit medical
26 inspections as [herein] authorized in this section, including examina-
27 tions pursuant to subdivision two of this section, shall be deemed to
28 have waived [his or her] their rights under this section in respect to
29 expenses for medical treatment or hospital care rendered and for salary
30 or wages payable after such refusal.
31 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a provider of
32 medical treatment or hospital care furnished pursuant to the provisions
33 of this section shall not collect or attempt to collect reimbursement
34 for such treatment or care from any such police officer, any such
35 advanced ambulance medical technician or any such detention officer.
36 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 207-c of the general municipal law, as
37 amended by section 56 of chapter 476 of the laws of 2018, is amended to
38 read as follows:
39 1. Any sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff or corrections officer of
40 the sheriff's department of any county (hereinafter referred to as a
41 "police officer") or any member of a police force of any county, city of
42 less than one million population, town or village, or of any district,
43 agency, board, body or commission thereof, or a detective-investigator
44 or any other investigator who is a police officer pursuant to the
45 provisions of the criminal procedure law employed in the office of a
46 district attorney of any county, or any corrections officer of the coun-
47 ty of Erie department of corrections, or an advanced ambulance medical
48 technician employed by the county of Nassau, or any detention officer
49 employed by the city of Yonkers, or any supervising fire inspector, fire
50 inspector, fire marshal or assistant fire marshal employed full-time in
51 the county of Nassau fire marshal's office, or at the option of the
52 county of Nassau, any probation officer of the county of Nassau, or any
53 director of bay constables, assistant director of bay constables, bay
54 constable II, or bay constable employed by the department of conserva-
55 tion and waterways in the town of Hempstead, county of Nassau, who is
56 injured in the performance of [his or her] their duties or who is taken
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1 sick as a result of the performance of [his or her] their duties so as
2 to necessitate medical or other lawful remedial treatment shall be paid
3 by the municipality by which he or she is employed the full amount of
4 [his or her] their regular salary or wages until [his or her] their
5 disability arising therefrom has ceased, and, in addition such munici-
6 pality shall be liable for all medical treatment and hospital care
7 necessitated by reason of such injury or illness. Provided, however, and
8 notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the municipal
9 health authorities or any physician appointed for the purpose by the
10 municipality, after a determination has first been made that such injury
11 or sickness was incurred during, or resulted from, such performance of
12 duty, may attend any such injured or sick police officer, from time to
13 time, for the purpose of providing medical, surgical or other treatment,
14 or for making inspections and the municipality shall not be liable for
15 salary or wages payable to such police officer, or for the cost of
16 medical treatment or hospital care furnished after such date as such
17 health authorities or physician shall certify that such injured or sick
18 police officer has recovered and is physically able to perform [his or
19 her] their regular duties. Any injured or sick police officer who shall
20 refuse to accept medical treatment or hospital care or shall refuse to
21 permit medical inspections as [herein] authorized in this section,
22 including examinations pursuant to subdivision two of this section,
23 shall be deemed to have waived [his or her] their rights under this
24 section in respect to expenses for medical treatment or hospital care
25 rendered and for salary or wages payable after such refusal.
26 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a provider of
27 medical treatment or hospital care furnished pursuant to the provisions
28 of this section shall not collect or attempt to collect reimbursement
29 for such treatment or care from any such police officer, a member of a
30 police force of any county, city, any such advanced ambulance medical
31 technician, any such detention officer or any such detective-investiga-
32 tor or any other such investigator who is a police officer pursuant to
33 the provisions of the criminal procedure law.
34 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
35 the amendments to subdivision 1 of section 207-c of the general munici-
36 pal law made by section two of this act shall take effect on the same
37 date and in the same manner as chapter 628 of the laws of 1991, takes
38 effect.
